Fervo is using technology developed in the oil and gas industry to unlock the vast stores of geothermal power under our feet.

It’s now possible to treat inherited blood diseases, such as sickle cell disease, with gene editing. Blood stem cells are extracted from the patient, modified, and infused back into their bone ...

"When he joined Google in 2014 through the acquisition of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence start-up he co-founded, [Demis] Hassabis was one of a handful of AI leaders taking the possibility of ...

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...

“Write me a concise summary of Mission Impossible characters and plots to date,” I recently asked ChatGPT before catching the latest franchise entry. It delivered. I didn’t need to understand its code ...

What happens when you can't tell the difference between a human and an AI chatbot? We're about to find out. None of us was expecting the arrival of super communicators. Science fiction taught us that ...

Like DNA hard drives, the approach could lock the world's data down for the long haul—if researchers can make it practical. We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will ...

When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations. Electrons jump between energy levels, atoms vibrate, and chemical bonds shift—all within millionths of a ...

The main problem with big tech’s experiment with artificial intelligence is not that it could take over humanity. It’s that large language models (LLMs) like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and ...

Despite the impressive performance of modern AI models, they still struggle to match the learning abilities of young children. Now, researchers have shown that teaching models like kindergartners can ...

"Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page slideshow report—which used the word 'unprecedented' on 51 of those pages—to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent ...

Dr. Ting Rei Tan is a quantum physicist at the Quantum Control Laboratory (QCL) at the University of Sydney. He is an ARC Future Fellow and holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship investigating ...